1980Winner
Best Performance
The Blues Brothers
Cab Calloway
Actor · Director
Rochester, New York, USA
December 25, 1907
Biography
Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader. Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s. Calloway's band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry, New Orleans guitar ace Danny Barker, and bassist Milt Hinton. Calloway continued to perform until his death in 1994 at the age of 86.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1965Nominee
Best Performance
The Cincinnati Kid
2003Nominee
Best Performance
Piano Blues
Career Highlights
1999Highlight
Best Performance
Grass
1945Highlight
Best Performance
Caldonia
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The Blues Brothers
The Cincinnati Kid
Grass